Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:18:01 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Evan Leibovitch on BSD Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612131552.045a6c90@localhost> In-Reply-To: <p0510031cb74c1713ae96@[192.168.168.205]> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost>
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At 01:03 PM 6/12/2001, Rich Morin wrote: >Actually, I think he raises an interesting point. IBM surely knows about >BSD; why, then, are they spending $2B or so on Linux. Part of the issue >could be that Linux has mindshare, but I'm not sure that's the whole of >it. Anyone who has ever worked with, or in, an organization such as IBM knows that PR is everything. Especially at IBM -- a company which has been marketing-driven (sometimes to its own detriment) since Watson founded it. IBM does use BSD internally, but its Linux efforts get the hype merely because Linux seems trendy. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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